Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-05
Three WRECKS.
A Fast Train on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad CoIIides With a
Freight Near TIffin, Ohio.
At Least Twenty-Five People Believed
to Have Been Killed, Most of Them
Being Completely Cremated.
One or Two People are Killed and Several
Injured In a Collision at West
Springfield,s Mass.
FATAL COLLISION.

llFtIN, OHlO, jail. f.-lue IdeL tESll
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at
an early hour this morning collided with
an east-bound freight near this city,
wrecking both trains. Nineteen bodies
have been taken from the wreck. More
are injured. Three coaches were burned.
Physicians have gone to the scene from
here. The weather is very cold, the
thermometer registering about 10 below
zero.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
The fast train on the Baltimore and
Ohio which left New York about g. m.
yesterday for Chicago with five coaches
and four sleepers, all well-flled with
passengers, collided with an eastern
bound freight seven miles east OF this city
about 4 O'Clock this morning. The fast
train was about fifty minutes late, and
was running at the rate of
SIXTY MILES AN HOUR.
Passing the town of Republic like flash,
1t rushed along to curve one mile west
of that place, when suddenly the engineer
saw freight train under full Roadway
within 100 yards of him. He at once ap-
piled the brakes and reversed his engine,
but it did no good, and the next instant
the crash came, telescoping the coaches
and piling them upon each other. To
add CONSERVATION to the horrible scene a
fire broke out in the smoking car and
soon spread to the other cars. Many
were killed outright, while others were
wedged IL among the broken cars and
were
SLOWLY CONSUMED BY THE FLAMES.
The screams of the dying and wounded
were heartrendine, but no assistance
could be given until farmer, awakened
by the crash, came, and with other neigh
bors worked like heroes to save the per
;sbing. At this writing nineteen dead
bodies have been recovered, and they lie
burned and disfgured in the snow beside
the track. Help was sent from Republic
and this city as soon as the news was re-
ceived. 1t is fearful sight, and recalls
the Ashtabula horror of the winter of
1877. 1t is impossible to give the names
of the killed or wounded at this time.
THE STORY OF PASSENGER.
TOLEDO, ONO, Jan. 4.-Charles P
Toll and wife of Detroit, who were in the
wrecked Baltimore and Ohio train this
morning, passed through here at noon.
Toll gives this account of the disa ter:
The train was the consolidated express
No. 5, which left Washington city at 10
8. N. yesterday. At 2:15 this morning
he was awakened by being violently
tn own from his berth. The train
consisted of the engine, baggage
nd trro eIo
The train collided with an east-bound
freight, which had got stalled mile west
OF Republic and eight miles west of Tiffin.
The two engines were utterly wrecked
The coach was telescoped into the bag
gage car so completely that two cars were
completely crushed into the space of one.
The two sleepers did not leave the track
The telescoped cars caught fire from the
stove, and the mangled and crushed pas
imprisoned in the shattered
wreck, shrieked in agony as the flames
proceeded with the work of destruction.
The engineer and fireman of the freight
leape and saved themselves before the
collision. The engineer of the express,
named Eastman, had leg broken
and sustained severe wound
IN the shoulder. His fireman was caught
between the engine and the tender and
died in few minutes. The unipjured
and the residents of the
neighborhood set to work to aid the
wounded passengers IN the burning cars,
rcscuing all who could be reached. Up
to the time Toll left, which was at 3
o'clock, eight dead bodies had been re-
covered from the wreck. The baggage
man of the express was thrown through
the roof of the car, escaping with 8
broken leg. The express messenger, who
was sitting beside him, was killed in
stantly. No one in the sleepers wss in
lured in the least. Among the passen-
sengers in the sleepers were Mrs. Fish of
Jolie ILL.,, sister of Gen. Logan, and her
son, Charles, neither of whom We're in
jured. The shock was SO terrific that
The farmers in the neighbor-
hood thought it was an earth
quake. They were soon at
the scene of the wreck. In the confusion
Of the wreck not dispute arose among
The trainmen as to the responsibility for
he disaster. 1t appears that the freight
rain wss rum ng on t me, and the en-
Iineer was heard to remark that he had
eft the last siding with only thirty POUNDS
of steam, and on the upgrade east of
riffin his engine went back on him and
he train stalled. No danger signals were
sent out ahead, and the express was run
1iog at full speed and dawn grade, and
around curve, and had no warning of
.he impending disaster until at the IT,
slant of the collision
PARTIAL LIST OF THE DEAD.
TOLEDO, OHIo, Jan. 1.-The total num-
Der of passengers on the wrecked Balti-
more and ohio train was siXty-five. Ten
iead bodies have been taken out aud
.hree more are believed to be in the
ruins. The names Of the dead as far as
Identified are:
f. C. hartley, Washington.
WILLIAM ,EDERICK. Washington.
Fireman of the express.
JOSEPH FISHERMAN and two sons of
W. Va.
Mrs. Osterman and two other children
we're saved. The smoker was entirely
and all the passengers in it
we're killed. The mail and express mat
,er WAS DESTROYED. The coroner has
:, ne from Tlffin to hold an inquest.